Guru of color, genius with a brush, Mr. Rudquist was too gentle, too generous
and too humble to be called master.
This is a portrait of the late
artist as my teacher. A descriptive study of the master’s eye, by one of his
multitudinous pupils.
Rudquist chose self portraits by Leonardo, Durer,
Rembrandt, Alice Neel, Bonnard, Lucian Freud, Picasso, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo,
Louis Corinth, Elisabeth Vig�e-LeBrun, Chardin, Gauguin, Chuck Close, Robert
Arneson, Degas, and K�the Kollwitz to illuminate the film we made together.
One painter said you can see the whole history of western painting
watching Rudquist paint in The Painted Eye.
Guru of color, genius with a
brush, Mr. Rudquist was too gentle, too generous and too humble to be called
master.
Mike Hazard
—from a
eulogy for Jerry Rudquist (1934-2001)
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Useful for art classes at
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